Lakewood resident Joel Kleinman has secured the open seat on the Lakewood Board of Education via a successful write-in campaign, according to numbers released by the Ocean County Board of Elections.
Kleinman garnered 5,005 votes of the 6,969 total votes tallied. No other candidate received more than several hundred votes.
Incumbents Shlomie Stern and Meir Grunhut who were running unopposed for re-election to their seats, won the two other seats.
The open seat was a result of current board member Isaac Zlatkin choosing not to run for re-election and no other challengers filed to run before the deadline.
However, a new member will soon be needed again, as Moshe Raitzik, who won a seat on the Lakewood Fire District Board of Commissioners, will soon need to resign from his Board of Education position.
Why does Raitzik need to resign? There’s nothing wrong with being a fire commissioner and BOE member at the same time.
i hope Joel learns quickly state laws and funding requirments for both public and private schools.
its not like running a private business.
that i see is many times the problem facing all board of education members. at the sametime the state has an agenda when it brings in state monitors. the current one is allegedly to desolve the funding to private schools federal mandated programs and support the public schools students. it also may be to close the public schools as the new elect governor has hinted to.
all i see is a huge increas to our taxes in Tom River and Jackson due to lack of educational funding getting back to our local schools both private and public. Why isnt the state funding the public schools properly. ultimataly we are paying the diffrence when the township / public school portion is rasied to close to 20% in the past 2 years. the state of nj is robbing us of our tax dollars by sending the taxes we pay to ABOTT schools districts such as Camden, Trenton, AC, Newark, Paterson, Pemberton and others.
Why do we not get bus service 100 % paid by the state or funded through the schools districts to send our kids to school as mandated by law. the aid in leui doesnt cover the full cost of busing for our children.
I have another question. Why are non mandated students being provided bussing before all the mandated routes are taken? My children live 2 miles from school and we must carpool. While the kids living walking distance have bussing. LSTA is helpless.